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Earth Day events begin with parade
April 19, 2008
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Earth Day to be celebrated this weekend
Lawrence residents are set to celebrate Earth Day in a big way this weekend. Enlarge video
Past Event
8th Annual Earth Day Parade
- When: Saturday, April 19, 2008, 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
- Where: Downtown Lawrence, Lawrence
- Cost: Free
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Past Event
8th Annual Earth Day Celebration
- When: Saturday, April 19, 2008, 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Where: South Park, 12th and Massachusetts streets, Lawrence
- Cost: Free
- More on this event....
Past Event
Earth Day Fashion Show
- When: Saturday, April 19, 2008, 7 p.m.
- Where: Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive, KU campus, Lawrence
- Cost: $10
- More on this event....
Past Event
Lawrence Electronic Recycling Event
- When: Saturday, April 26, 2008, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- Where: Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive, KU campus, Lawrence
- Cost: Free
- More on this event....
Lawrence's Earth Day celebration continues to grow.
The festivities kick off today with a downtown parade at 11 a.m.
"I think it's probably going to be one of the bigger ones that Lawrence has seen for a while," said Brian Sifton, president of KU Environs.
The parade is sponsored by Kansas University Environs, a student organization, and will begin near Seventh and Massachusetts streets and travel south to South Park near 11th and Massachusetts streets.
At least 40 businesses and organizations will be featured in the parade that will consist of floats, walkers and a lot of bicycles.
From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., South Park will offer plenty of family activities. There will be more than 50 information booths, live entertainment and food.
Here's what happening this week:
Today
¢ 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. - Free rides on the "T," compliments of Lawrence Transit System.
¢ 11 a.m. - The Parade for the Earth.
¢ 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. - Tree identification tours in South Park by Lawrence Parks and Recreation forestry staff.
¢ 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. - Children's butterfly garden and rose garden tour in South Park by Lawrence Parks and Recreation horticulture staff.
¢ Noon - Van Go Mobile Arts will unveil green youth sculptures in the southeast corner of South Park
¢ 7 p.m. - LADA Earth Day Fashion Show, Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive. Tickets are $10.
Monday
¢ 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. - Community dinner at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Local food dinner for $5 sponsored by Community Mercantile. A panel discussion follows the dinner at 6:30 p.m. Panelists include Gary Nabhan, an ethnobotanist, food preservationist; Kelly Kindscher, KU associate professor with the Kansas Biological Surveys and environmental studies department; Rhonda Janke, associate professor with the Kansas State University horticulture department; and Mercedes Taylor-Puckett, of the Lawrence Farmers' Market.
¢ 7 p.m. - Films for Action: Crude Impact will be showing at Liberty Hall. It's a documentary film screening about the nation's dependence on fossil fuels and peak oil. Cost: $3.
Tuesday
¢ All day - "The Good Fight" Web series will launch on the Sundance Channel. It can be seen at www.sundancechannel.com. The series was created by Lawrence resident Simran Sethi, an environmental journalist. The series includes a feature on the rebuilding of Greensburg.
¢ 7 p.m. - Gary Nabhan Lecture: "Geography of Food Endangerment: Strategies for Renewing America's Food Traditions, sponsored by the Commons at Spooner Hall, 1340 Jayhawk Blvd.
April 26
¢ 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. - Community electronic recycling event, Lied Center parking lot, 1600 Stewart Drive. Items accepted for recycling include computer monitors, desktops, laptops, keyboards, TVs, cell phones, printers, DVD drives, etc. There is a $5 fee per computer monitor and a $10 fee per TV.
For more information, visit www.lawrencerecycles.org or call 832-3030.
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BigPrune (Anonymous) says…
Shouldn't cars and trucks be banned from this parade? Then there is all the people exhaling their carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
19 April 2008
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Marion (Marion Lynn) says…
“¢ 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. - Free rides on the “T,” compliments of Lawrence Transit System.”Marion writes:Let's tell the truth here, OK?”Free rides” courtesy of the taxpayers of Lawrence!
19 April 2008
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northtown (Anonymous) says…
Earth Day? They and having this to save our planet? Protest Pollution ? And the city offers free rides on the pollution spewing T ???Sweet move city ????
19 April 2008
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Warren6032 (Anonymous) says…
Stop your bellyaching. You people complain about everything. Stop posting your complains and GET A LiFE
19 April 2008
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
Why didn't they just recycle last week's parade?
19 April 2008
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mommaeffortx2 (Anonymous) says…
warmer if they are reducing are wind then they are not doing a good enough job. I am tired of the wind make it go away.I will agree with the whole bus thing seems like a double edge sword, on one hand less cars on the road but on the other still alot of pollution.
19 April 2008
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mommaeffortx2 (Anonymous) says…
sorry did not proofread very well should say our wind not had coffee yet.
19 April 2008
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tunahelper (Anonymous) says…
we need to build newer, cleaner COAL power plants, no matter what the lefty enviro-whackoes say.California has had wind turbines for decades and why is Kansas wanting to develop wind energy now?more hypocrisy from the looney left.go john McCAIN!!!
19 April 2008
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BigPrune (Anonymous) says…
According to climate expert Al Gore, wind farms will alter the jet stream during different times of the year, resulting in manmade seasonal changes throughout the year. The direct result will, regardless of season, the northern and southern hemispheres will experience opposite seasons.
19 April 2008
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acoupstick (Anonymous) says…
When and where did AG make that assertion?
19 April 2008
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bennyoates (Anonymous) says…
The Earth Day haters on this board just want their own parade—maybe one in honor of Halliburton, so they can put together a float and dance naked in a cage for Dick Cheney.I don't think they'll be getting too many beads, however. But you have to take the bad with the good.
19 April 2008
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bennyoates (Anonymous) says…
Warren6032 (Anonymous) says:Stop your bellyaching. You people complain about everything. Stop posting your complains and GET A LiFE+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++But Warren, don't you realize that the complainers don't have lives because they have to work overtime so that deadbeats can use the “T”? Don't you realize that Marion speaks for all Lawrence taxpayers when he condemns public transportation? Come on, Warren, these “complainers” are in the grand tradition of our Founding Fathers! If only the politicians would listen to them! Future generations will wonder why such great minds are relegated to anonymous message boards for pointing out the lavish subsidies for people who are just too damn lazy to pull themselves up by their own jockstraps, or even to take baths!!
19 April 2008
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
IGW..Tommy Tiernan:Something Mental. Comedy Central.Best coffee overload impersonation ever! That man is fall out of your chair funny.
19 April 2008
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kawryan (Anonymous) says…
We get one day a year to recycle old computers? Is there anywhere else that provides this service?
19 April 2008
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
I believe they call that a garage sale kawryan.